The document criticizes the Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) approach. It argues that CLT fails to account for existing language skills students bring from their native language. It also claims that CLT oversimplifies the process of acquiring a foreign language. Additionally, the dominance of CLT has led to neglecting the important context in which language pedagogy takes place. The document references other works that provide further criticism of CLT.

1. Una crítica al Communicative
Language Teaching
Lic. Nick Izquierdo

2. • CLT fails to take account of the knowledge
and skills which language students bring with
them from the mother tongue.
• The Communicative Approach generally
presents an over-simplified and misleading
account of [the proces of acquiring a foreign
language]
• The dominance of CLT has led to the neglect
of one crucial aspect of language pedagogy,
namely the context in which that pedagogy
takes place.

3. References
Swan, M. (January 01, 1985). A Critical Look at
the Communicative Approach (1). Elt Journal,
39, 1, 2-12.
Swan, M. (April 01, 1985). A Critical Look at
the Communicative Approach (2). Elt Journal,
39, 2, 76-87.
Bax, S. (July 01, 2003). The end of CLT: a
context approach to language teaching. Elt
Journal, 57, 3, 278-287

4. Gracias